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# אִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H337

**alas!** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

alas! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/337/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִי³: interj. alas [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/337/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** interj. (so in Rabb., v. DeKoh 197 WrEccl. 490) alas! (late) Ec 4:10 אִי לוֹ (written in MT as one word) alas for him (Ew§ 309 c), the one, who falleth, etc. (i.e. who falleth alone) 10:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: woe! (2).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 10:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.16/#tree)

אִֽי־לָ֣ךְ אֶ֔רֶץ שֶׁמַּלְכֵּ֖ךְ נָ֑עַר וְשָׂרַ֖יִךְ בַּבֹּ֥קֶר יֹאכֵֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* woe! to you O.land which king your \[is\].a.youth and princes your in the morning they.eat

*JPS 1917:* Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a boy, and thy princes feast in the morning!

[Ecclesiastes 4:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.10/#tree)

כִּ֣י אִם־יִפֹּ֔לוּ הָאֶחָ֖ד יָקִ֣ים אֶת־חֲבֵר֑וֹ וְאִ֣יל֗וֹ הָֽאֶחָד֙ שֶׁיִּפּ֔וֹל וְאֵ֥ין שֵׁנִ֖י לַהֲקִימֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) if they.will.fall.down the one he.will.raise (et) companion his and woe! to him the.one \[person\] who he.will.fall.down and there.\[is\].not a.second.\[person\] to raise him

*JPS 1917:* For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/337.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/337/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).